Leighton Meester

[lawaldorf]

LOVE STORY: It was standing room only at Vera Wang’s Park Avenue apartment as the designer and actress Leighton Meester presented Wang’s latest fragrance, Lovestruck, Thursday afternoon.

Meester appears in print advertising and a TV commercial for the fragrance; both were previewed to editors from around the globe at the event, as was the bottle and its flower-and-tulle-festooned cap. Print ads are slated to begin running in September fashion, beauty and lifestyle magazines in the U.S. The scent is out June 5 at Harrods in the U.K., and will be launched in the U.S. in August. TV is expected for holiday. Carter Smith shot the ads, with Trey Laird serving as creative director.

In both ads, Meester is clad in a maroon couture Wang gown and looks carefree, but Wang insists that was Meester’s acting chops at work: “Everyone else was in three parkas and Leighton is standing there in a strapless evening dress with a very thin fabric,” said Wang, noting that the ad was shot on a particularly frigid winter day on Mercer Street in SoHo. Naturally, this caught the attention of every tourist with an iPhone — but while Wang wasn’t wild about unauthorized visuals floating about, she did appreciate the spontaneous market research. “When I heard tourists saying, ‘ I want to look like her,’ I knew we were right on the money,” said Wang. “There’s nothing like the real client in the street, and I mean the street literally — and in windows literally.”

Meester took it in stride: “I was above it all, literally,” she said with a laugh of her fourth-floor perch on the fire escape where the ad was shot. “So I was just kind of entertaining myself — I did a little singing, did a little dance.”

— Julie Naughton

http://www.wwd.com/media-news/fashi...parent-3595696?src=rss/recentstories/20110429

From HollywoodLife.com

 

[Versace-Goddess]

So much better in this brown dress. Classy and elegant.

 

[sobriquet87]

Any news on whether or not she's going to the MET ball? I would love to see her in Vera Wang or even better Alexander McQueen!
I think she's edgy enough to pull off a McQueen look.

 

[Boomer]

^ She really HAS TO be there!! All the GG crew should be there!!

 

[Viakenny]

I throught i never seen worse hair, that Rachel has in the moment, but on Leighton it's looks even worse!
Her outfit doesn't flattering at all, she looks again like puts grandma clothes on herself

maybe Leighton is only doing that because people aren't used to seeing the opposite (dark ends, blonde roots), considering, she's a natural blonde.

 

[lawaldorf]

Candids, celebrity-gossip.net

 

[lawaldorf]

Posing with a TPR fan, so adorable. From l-meester.org

 

[asli345]

Love her hat!

 

[dajrekshn]

love the whole outfit! very summer-y!

 

[Katya]

Hair is a disaster, love her bag and shoes

 

[mordant]

What a great outfit, especially the shoes and bag!
I hope she's staying in the city for the MET Ball. I'll be really upset if she doesn't make an appearance.

 

[LolaSvelt]

...if she does attend, let's hope she won't make a late entrance due to filming! I absolutely loved her look last year.

celebrityfashion.onsugar

 

[lifeistiffanyblu]

LOVE the last candid look. The bag and shoes are perfect. and her smile

 

[saann]

I'm probably alone in this but I liked this look better:

arizonafoothillsmagazine.com

While the other was pretty this was just fun, exciting and perfect for a costume gala!

 

[LolaSvelt]

I liked that look, too. I probably wouldn't have if she had worn it outside of the Costume Institute Gala. It would've worked even better with the Superhero theme from the previous year.

 

[saann]

Watching the gala outfits I kind of forget there's even a theme going on

It will be interesting to see how many will follow the theme this year..

 

[LolaSvelt]

Watching the gala outfits I kind of forget there's even a theme going on

It will be interesting to see how many will follow the theme this year..

That's because none of them even bother to dress up for the theme.

 

[mordant]

I'm probably alone in this but I liked this look better

I liked this look, too. It just took a few days for it to grow on me.

 

[saann]

That's because none of them even bother to dress up for the theme.

And the ones who do usually get ridiculed for it, case in point: Kirsten Dunst, 2007.

 

[LolaSvelt]

...then there's Sarah Jessica Parker in that tartan/lace Alexander McQueen dress. I absolutely loved that one, too.